Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …

and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 …

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect … reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …

theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to defect from cooperation, i ….e. cooperation is collusive since the gains are at the expense of the public. We find that this negative externality increases …

Descriptive norms - the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group - play a key role in shaping individual … of behavior can play a crucial role in how people react to descriptive norms. Using a representative sample of the U … and values play a larger role in determining actual behavior. This provides important insights into how individuals …